Foursquare
Foursquare is a location intelligence platform that maintains a global graph of more than 100 million points of interest (POI) and provides developer APIs and SDKs for place search, geotagging, autocomplete, audience measurement, and visit detection across web and mobile.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles Foursquare the way a machine reads it — 47 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Foursquare scores 43.7/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 24/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.
Kin Score
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How we profile Foursquare
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Foursquare. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 12
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Foursquare Movement SDK
Mobile SDK for iOS, Android, and React Native that translates passive device location signals into visit events using the Foursquare POI graph.
Foursquare Movement Geofence API
Server-side API for managing geofences that trigger events when Movement SDK-equipped devices enter or exit defined places.
Foursquare Studio Data API
API for managing datasets, maps, and visualizations within Foursquare Studio for geospatial analytics.
Foursquare Measurement API (MAPI)
API for attribution and audience measurement using Foursquare visit panels.
Foursquare Ask API
Natural-language place search with justifications
Foursquare Autocomplete API
Type-ahead search for places, addresses, and geographies
Foursquare Details API
Retrieve attributes for a specific place
Foursquare Geotagging API
Resolve a coordinate to the most likely place (Place Snap)
Foursquare Match API
Match an external POI record to a Foursquare place
Foursquare Photos API
Photos associated with a place
Foursquare Search API
Find and explore places
Foursquare Tips API
User tips associated with a place
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Open Collections 10
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONFoursquare Places Ask API
OPEN COLLECTIONFoursquare Places Ask Autocomplete API
OPEN COLLECTIONFoursquare Places Ask Details API
OPEN COLLECTIONFoursquare Places Ask Geotagging API
OPEN COLLECTIONFoursquare Places Ask Match API
OPEN COLLECTIONFoursquare Places Ask Photos API
OPEN COLLECTIONFoursquare Places API
OPEN COLLECTIONFoursquare Places Ask Search API
OPEN COLLECTIONFoursquare Places Ask Tips API
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Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Foursquare Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Foursquare Finops
FINOPSSemantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Foursquare Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 2
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
Foursquare API Rules
SPECTRALFoursquare API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 10
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
AskResponse
JSON SCHEMAAutocompleteResponse
JSON SCHEMAGeotaggingResponse
JSON SCHEMAPhoto
JSON SCHEMAPlaceMatchResponse
JSON SCHEMAPlace
JSON SCHEMAPlaceSearchResponse
JSON SCHEMAFoursquarePlace
JSON SCHEMATip
JSON SCHEMAFoursquareTip
JSON SCHEMAScroll within the panel for all 10 ·
JSON Structure 1
JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Foursquare Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 5
Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Foursquare Ask Example
EXAMPLEFoursquare Match Example
EXAMPLEFoursquare Place Example
EXAMPLEFoursquare Search Example
EXAMPLESecurity Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Foursquare — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 2
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 2
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 7
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
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Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Company 3
The organization behind the API
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